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Streetcars trump techno: Music festival delayed

The reconstituted Detroit Electronic Music Festival has been rescheduled for 2015's Fourth of July weekend because of construction of the M-1 Rail streetcar line on Woodward Avenue at the event's Campus Martius location, organizers said last week.

DEMF is unrelated to Movement, the annual electronic music festival at Hart Plaza on May 24-26.

Organizers in November announced the relaunch of DEMF, which began in 2000 at Hart Plaza before financial and other troubles led to it being replaced by Movement.

An associated DEMF event at Ford Field, the Federation of Electronic Music Technology showcase, also has been rescheduled for the same time in 2015.

Tickets for FEMT/DEMF, which are $300 ($1,500 for VIP), are good for 2015 or can be refunded at the Ford Field box office.

The events are the brainchild of producer Carol Marvin, who launched the original DEMF. She estimated last year the new events would cost up to $2 million, attract 100,000 attendees and inject $30 million into the local economy.

Ferndale-based Paxahau Promotions Group LLC created Movement in 2006, settling several years of disputes and confusion over the techno music festival, which was established in 2000.

Techno music is widely considered to have been born in Detroit in the 1980s.

M-1 Rail is a $137 million, 3.3-mile mostly curbside-running streetcar loop on Woodward Avenue, co-mingled with traffic with 11 stops between Grand Boulevard and Congress Street. The system is expected to be in service by 2016.